This white paper demonstrates how to increase profitability by reducing the operating costs of backup and archiving using Riverbed Whitewater and Amazon Glacier cloud storage, instead of traditional tape backup methods. Amazon Glacier is designed for low-cost storage of large datasets of infrequently accessed data, such as long-term archives, yearly full backups, and other data sets which typically, once written, are rarely read. Â Analysis of the return on investment (ROI) for a deployment of this solution shows that the use of Whitewater and Glacier delivers more than 70% operational cost savings compared to on-premise tape infrastructure over a 3-year period.
